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The Amherst free press. (Amherst, Ohio), 1879-05-23

The Amherst free press. (Amherst, Ohio), 1879-05-23 page 1

A "T1 ' Amherst Press. bree t '! :..,-,( I - , ,. . , ' '35i Per Annum, in Advance. After two Wv?. f 1 .50 NEW SERlfc&iVoL. IV.-NO. 41. News is as. Healthv as Morning Air. E. M. IE WIS, Editor and Proprietor. AMHERST, OHIO, FRIDAY, MAY 231879. OLI) ;iirES-VOL. VI.-NQ. 45. 16 r 'i i : : i . General Ifews, Summary. 1 ConpreMlonitl. - Benate, May 14. Mr. Vest gave notice of hi Intention to Introduce a bill proposing to organise the Indian Territory Into a Btate, and providing for its admission Into tbe Union. -The Mil te amend tta. Revised Statutes so aa to provide that If two or more persons conspire either to commit an offenee 'against the United States or to defraud the revenue shall, on conviction, be fined 910,01X1 and Imprisoned not more than two years or both, 1 at discretion of court, was passed. CoDslSerattod war then resumed of the Legislative. Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill. All parts of the bill were passed upon with the exception of what la known aa the Legislative portion,- which - appropriates la, 800,000 for defraying expenses of Judiciary and fixing pay of lurors, providing how they shall be selected, repealing the test oath, etc Executive session and ad' journment. House. Consideration was resumed of the bill to amend the laws relating to coinage and to coin and bullion certificates, and Messrs, Fort and Swing addressed the House. Senate, May 15. Mr. Cockrell introduced a joint resolution authorizing and requesting the President of the United States to open correspondence with the Republic of France with the view and for the purpose of negotiating a proper treaty of reciprocity and commerce with that Government on terms alike honorable and lust. Referred. Consideration was then resumed of the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill, and Mr. Thurman addressed the Benate. Adjourned.Bouse. Consideration was resumed of the Warner BUver bill; Several amendments were offered and rejected and without further action the HouseadjOBrned. Benate, May 16. Mr. Maxey introduced a bill authorizing the Secretary of War to purchase sites for forts and posts In Texas. The President pro tern, laid before the Senate a message fiom the President of the United States in reply to a resolution of the 7th Inst, requesting Information relative to the alleged unlawful occupation of a portion of Indian Territory. On motion of Mr. Ingalla It was resolved that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to report to the Senate what amount of legal tender notes has been presented and redeemed In coin since the first of January last, and what amount of coin he considers himself authorized to re tain In the Treasury to maintain specie resumption. Consideration was resumed of the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill, and Messrs. Eaton, Cockling and Kern an addressed the Senate. . Bouse. A resolution was reported from tbe Committee on Rules by Mr. Frye for the appointment of a standing committee to which shall be referred all bills, resolutions, petitions, etc., a&ectlng traffic in alcoholic liquors. After come discussion tbe resolution was adopted. Consideration was then resumed of the Warner Silver bill. Several amendments were offered and rejected, and the Bouse adjourned. Benate, May 17. Consideration of the Legislative, Executive and. Judicial Appropriation bill was resumed. Several amendments were agreed to. After a short executive session the Senate adjourned. Bouse. As business of the morning hour, consideration was resumed of the bill to amend the law relating to the transfer of cases from State to United States Courts. After some discussion the bill went over until athe' 20th. Consideration t.i then resumed of the bill to amend tbe statutes relating to gold and silver coinage and coin and bullion certificates An amendment offered by Mr. Ewlng providing that the Secretary of the Treasury shall issue and deliver to a depositor of silver bullion certificates to an amount equal to the value of such bullion, and that sliver coirs coined from such bullion to the extent of forty per cent.' of such certificates shall be held for redemption thereof and tbe remainder aoplled to the payment of tbe Interest and principal of the public debt was adopted. Adjourned until the 20th. Senate, May 19. A communication wss received from tbe Secretary of the' Treasury, in response to a resolution of the ltttb inst., by which he was directed to report what amount of United States legal tender notes have been redeemed in coin since the first day of January last, and also what amount of coin he considers himself authorized to retain In the Treasury for the purpose of maint aining resumption of specie payments, under the provisions of the act of January 4, 1875. Secretary Sherman writes: "There has been redeemed la coin since January 4, 1679, of legal tender notes an amount of (4,138,513. As to tbe amount of coin authorized to be retained in the Treasury for tbe purpose of maintaining resumption of specie payments, I have to state that under the provisions of the Resumption act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury in order to prepare and provide for the redemption of United States notes, to use any surplus revenue in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to Issue certain bonds of the United States, the coin reserve of tbe Treasury has been increased to 1188,000,000, that being about forty per cent, of the notes outstanding to be redeemed and believed to be the smallest reserve upon which resumption could be prudently commenced and successfully maintained, as fully set forth In my last annual report. This revenue arose from the sale of $95,500,000 bonds, and from surplus revenues a nthnrluRd hv law. and It must, under ex isting law be maintained unimpaired for tbe tmnxis'e for which it was created." Mr. Blaine addressed the Senate on tbe Legislative, Ex ecutive and Judicial Appropriation Din. .executive session and adjournment. Benate,. May 20. -Mr. McDonald asked leave to Introduce a bill authorizing the President of the United States to employ the r.!!!t!l ss 12 ir.u u.Iirciioi the united States to enforce the laws whenever their execution Is 'obstructed by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by jndiclal authorities, etc., and preventing, the military from being used as a potte conutatnt except in cases as authorised by the constitution and laws. Mr. Edmunds objected to the Introduction of the bill on the ground that previous notice bad not been given. Mr. McDonald then withdrew tbe bill and gave notice be should ask leave to Introduce it on the following day. The consideration of the Legislative, Judicial and Executive Appropriation bill was then resumed. After discussion pro and am the Senate decided to adhere to the previous understanding and proceeded to vote. Mr. Ed mund's motion to strike out tbe clauses repealing tbe statute relative to the test oath was lost yeas, 2fi; nays, 87. Mr. Edmunds then moved to strike out the clause establish-- tng the mode of drawing United States jurors which was lost. The Senate also refused to strike out tbe clause repealing the statutes relating to United States Marshals and Supervisors of Election. The bill was then read the third time and passed yeas, 87; navs, 27. 'Tbe Contagious Disease bill was taken up on motion of Mr. Harris. W ltbout taking any action thereon adjourned until the 22d. Bouse. The business of tbe morning hour was the. bill 4o amend the laws relating to the transfer of laws from State to Federal court.' "THe" Bill wal Haally laid on the table. Consideration was then resumed of the Warner ! Stlyef bill, : the i question being . 00 the third section (allowing deposit ' of bullion ' at any mint and Its being carried for the benefit of the owner.) . Mr. Fort's substitute was defeated, and the question then recurring on the section It was agreed to yeas, 118; nays, 110. The question then recurred on the fourth section, which merely provides that charge for melting and refining shall be fixed by tbe Director of the Mint. Mr. Marsh submitted an amendment tliat the charges shall be the difference between tbe market of bullion and the legal tender of coin. Agreed to yeas, 117; nays, 105. A motion to reeonslder and lay that motion on the table (the parliamentary formula of making the vote final) Was then made and carried. Adjourned. Wsuhlngtoau Secretary McCbart, In conformity with a decision of Judge Dundy in the Ponca Indian habeat eorput case, has directed that tbose Indians bo released. The decision of Judge Dundy is regarded by the Government as a heavy blow to tbe present Indian system, and if sustained will prove extremely dangerous alike to whites and Indians. .The District Attorney at Omaha has been instructed to take the necessary steps to carry the question to a higher court. The Department of State bas been informed by Hoffman, charge at St. Petersburg, that every one coming into Russia must be provided with a passport verified by the Russian Consul. He must be registered at the police station, and must comply with tbe regulations or be subject to a fine or lmprls-mentThe Secretary of the Treasury says It to useless to send telegrams to the Department for ten dollar certificates, as they will be sent In due proportion to all different offices authorized to sell them as soon as they can be printed, and the supply will soon reach $3,000,000 a day. A delegation of Cheyenne Indians arrived at Washington on the 15th and had an Interview with the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with tbe view of procuring the consent of the Government to their return from Indian Territory to their recent homes. The House Committee on Rules have asked for the appointment of a special committee to take charge of and report upon the subject of woman suffrage. - Ik response to a letter from Secretary Schurz inquiring what amount of funds can be made available monthly for the payment of arrears due upon pensions allowed ?rlor to January 25, 1879, the Secretary of the reasury states that, including the amount already paid, $2,500,000 will be available prior to July 1 st, and $2,000,000 monthly thereafter. At this rate nearly the whole of the next fiscal year will be required to complete the payment of these arrears. The Ways and Means Committee 'nave agreed not to consider, at this session, any bills or joint resolutions affecting revenues, and that all such measures shall be laid over until the regular session In December. The F.nst. Minister White sailed from New Tork for Berlin on the 15th. The Presbyterian General Assembly met in annual session at Saratoga on the 15th. Rev. Dr. Henry H. Jess up, of the Byrlan Mission, was elected Moderator. The New York Legislature has passed a bill making six per cent, the legal rate of interest in that State. Flaherty and Bennett, members of the Brooklyn Board of Public Works, were convicted by a jury, on the 16th, of conspiracy In maintaining upon the pay-rolls about election time a targe numoer ui ibuuicib nuu-out work for them. John and Bobert Boas, miners at Easton, Pa., wero burled 900 feet below the surface, on the 17th, by the caving of the ore. Robert was taken out dead. John's body was not reached. Judge Asa Packer died at Philadelphia on the 17th, in the seventy-third year of bis age. . A steam yacht ran on the rocks in Little Hell (late on the 18th and upset. Three of the seven passengers were drowned. The breaker at the Stanton shaft of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Company burned on the 18th. Tbe original cost of the breaker and shaft was $250,000. The breakor was Insured for $49,000. Ex-State Senator J. B. Cornish, of Belvldere, N. J., convicted of conspiring to defraud the county of $10,000, and J. 11. Sweeney, ex-Chief of Police, of Phlllipsburg, mnvlcted of ralslne the county bill, were each sentenced to one year la the 8tate prison on the 17th. Mr. and Mrs. Wren and a Mrs, Howell were In a small boat on the Susque hanna River, at Kopp's Biding, near Sunbury, Pa., on the 19th, when the boat capsized and the two women were urowueu. An extensive fire was raging in the Keystone Mine, Pottsville, Pa,, on the 19th, and serious results were feared. A special session of the Labor Reform League began at Boston on the 19th. Ex-Governor Asahel Peck, of Vermont, died at Waterbury on the 19th. The body of Colonel Groesbeok, who mysteriously disappeared from his home in New York City several weens ago, was iouna in North River on the 20th. W. W. Bishop, the accomplice of Mrs. Cobb in a couple of Norwich, Conn. murders, was, on the 20th, sent to the pen itentiary for life. Williams. Bibnie & Co., cotton merchants at New York, failed on toe 20th. The Italian bark Amalfi, which sailed from New York on the 17th with a cargo of 14,200 barrels of refined petroleum, burned to the water's edge on'the 20th. Two HUNDRED and fifty thousand bales of cotton were sold at New York City on the 20th for future delivery. West and South. In the United States Circuit Court at Richmond, Vs., on the 14tb, Judge Hughes refused to grant a writ of habetu eorput In the mfaAirpnAt.lnn rue nf Edmund Kinney" and Mary Hall on the ground that the united States uourts nave no jurisaicuuu over tua question of marriage. A remarkable billiard match was played at Chicago on the 15th between Jacob Schaefer and George F. Slosson. The game was for tbe three-ball championship, 1,000 points up. Bchaefer won In tbree runs, mail ing tbe unprecedented average of Captain Lincoln, of the Fourth Cav alry, shot and killed a soldier of tbe Twenty- second ln.'antry, for mutiny at Ban Antonio, Texas, on the 14th. The General Assembly of the Pres byterian Church South began its annual con vention at Louisville on the 15th. The bursting of a water-spout in the western part of Louisville on the 15th was attended with considerable damage to property, but no loss of life. . Executions on the 16th: Wallace Wllkerson, at Provo, Utah, for the murder of Baxter two years ago. He was shot to death according to the Utah custom. John I. West, at Boonvllle, Mo., for tbe murder of Shinn; Henrf Alphonso Davis (white), Henry T. An drews (wmtei ana Lewis uanton icoioreai, noted burelars. at Hlllsboro. N. C. Tbe hanging of Davis and Carlton was badly managed, the ropes being too long and their feet rested on the ground. They were raised and the ropes relied, causing death from strangulation. ' R. W. Boisselieb and his brother Casper D. Bolsselier, of German parentage, but born in St. Louis, who, however, spent most of their boyhod and were educated in Germany, have sent a letter to Secretary of Btate Evarts stating that for the past two years they have been greatly annoyed by Prussian officials claiming they are under obligations to serve In the Prussian army. Their father, wbo is a naturalized citizen of the United States, but now residing in Germany, has been threatened with confiscation and attachment of a portion or all of money or property he may see fit to bequeath to them If they fail to appear in- court at tbe city of Schleswlg on the second day of July next. The brothers have resided and done business In St, Louis since 1873 and are regis tered voters. , Chief Moses says the reservation they are going to put him on U not the one he asked for and was given him; He wants the Corvllle reservation. Secretary. Schurz has been telegraphed for Instructions. The business portion of Farmersville, La., was burned on the With. The loss is esti mated at $100,000. A convention of colored delegates met at Richmond, Va, on the 19th for the purpose of considering matters connected with the welfare, rights and Improvement of the condition of their race. A resolution was passed recommending the colored people throughout tbe Btate to organise themselves Into emigration societies for the purpose of leaving the State, provided their condition is not bettered by the authorities of the State. L. LANOLEHiM.a German, living near Antloch, Contra Costa County, Cel., on the 16th, took bis little boy and girl, aged respectively six and four years, beat them to death with a club, cut their throats, and then went to the house and blew out his own brains with a shot-gun. The act is attributed to temporary insanity. The war among the trunk lines at Chicago extended to passenger rates on the 19th. ' The Missouri Legislature adjourned tine die on the 20th. Orlander Cassler was hanged at Seward, Neb., on the 20th. N. A. Hull and Eugene Goulding, aro being tried at Jacksonville, Fla , on the charge of conspiring to defraud voters in Brevard County, that State, last November. William Nelson, colored, was sen tenced, at Terre Haute, Ind., on the 20th, to tbe penitentiary for one year and fined $1,000 for marrying a white woman. The Chicago Inter-Ocean, on the 20th, published an analysis of about 800 let ters which It had received from seven States and Territories etvlnir the condition of the growing crops. In Illinois, winter and spring wheat have a trifle larger acreage than last year. Wisconsin, small grains are rather backward, owing to dry weaf.her. Dry weather injured the wneat prospects ior a wane in Minnesota, but recent showers have brought It into excellent condition. Dakota, Nebras ka, Kansas and Iowa report an increased acreage of wheat, and in fine condition. Foreign Intelligence. At Toronto, Canada, on the 13th, three children were burned to death while at play In a shed. The Porte is about to send a com mission of Sottas to tranqulllie the Albanians, who are very much dissatisfied. An uprising Is feared. The Porte has received official infor mation of the intentions of France and England with regard to Egypt. There Is no Intention of deposing the Khedive. Floods are again doing great dam age in Hungary. The village of Halos was completely inundated on the 14th, and 800 houues In Koltori were destroyed. It was announced in the German Reichstag on the 14th that Austria and Rus sia had consented to become parties to the' Anglo-German treaty for the prevention of the slave trade on the African coast, but that France and the United States, though asked to do so, were hardly expected to join, as they were unwilling to the mutual right of search. The coal miners at Durham, En gland, who have been out on a strike for sev eral weeks, have decided to go to work at re duced wages. Four villages on the banks of the Plattense, in Hungary, were flooded on the 15th. Russia has communicated her evacu ation programme showing that evacuation will be completed before the ena oi Juiy. Jacob Staempfli, a Swiss politician, and in 1861 President of the Swiss Confedera tion, and subsequently a member of the Geneva Court of Arbitration on Alabama Claims, is dead. The marriage of King Alfonso, of Spain, will take place In October or November. The rebellion in New Grenada has terminated. The Chilians bombarded Pisagua, several days ago, and reduced It to ashes, causing a loss of about 1,000,000 soles. Tn trsamg companies ci ui oiu- kanlsche Handelsvereinigung and the Oom- mandltore hankverelnlgung, of Rotterdam, bave failed. The total liabilities are about 750,000. . The German Reichstag have adopted the Government's proposals relative to duties on raw and broken iron. The greater part of Lublin City, in Russian-Poland, having a population of about 20,000, has been destroyed by fire. Vesuvius was in a slight state of eruption on the 16th. A dispatch to the London Times says the Government has arranged a satisfactory basis of negotiations with Yakoob Khan comprehending the main objects of the British policy. A Paris paper announces that negotiations relating to the Greek question commence at Constantinople early In June, rid nartakeof the character of a conference. All the powers agreed to this proposal except England. The Sultan has issued an irade sanc tioning the Eastern Roumelia Constitution. The River Theiss in Hungary bas in undated ninety square miles of grain fields near Beose Becsa, and destroyed two villages. The River Drone has overflowed its banks and destroyed hundreds or nouses. ' Le Royib, the French Minister of Justice, says the Government bas decided not to grant amnesty to members of the com mune, but simply to pardon them after the 6th of June. The recent election in Switzerland resulted in favor of the re-establishment of capital punishment The . Italian Chamber ' of Deputies has passed a bill making the performance of a civil marriage before the religious ceremony obligatory. Robbery by. armed gangs is assum ing alarming proportions in the Dccca and Poona districts in India. The robber have formed a regularorganlzattonundercommand of one Waseado Bulwund, lately a clerk In the Financial Department. They have Issued a manifesto to the Bombay Government threatening another mutiny and to put a price on the bead of the Governor unless distress is relieved. Anarchy, famine and drouth prevail in the districts. A Panama dispatch says General Renjlfo has announced his intention of executing General Marulanda and several of the officers captured at the battle of Aguados, on tbe ground that tbey prolonged the revolution against the Government after they had lost all hone of success. A firman of the Porte was read in Pristina and Novl Bazar, on tbe 19th, threatening death to any person who attacks Austrian troops. Negotiations for the transfer of the administration of Eastern Roumelia to Gov-erno Aleko Pasha have been satisfactorily concluded. Yon Forckenbeck bas offered his resignation as President of the German Reichstag. Ill health and the antagonism between his own views and those of the majority are the reasons given. The assailant of General Dreutolms has been arrested at Kleff. The German Government has resolved to restrict the sales of silver temporarily, and may possibly suspend them altogether. - Why HeKillcd Her. Freeman, the Pocasset murderer, told a newspaper reporter how he came to murder his child. He said: " I had been feeling badly for two weeks. My head was racked with pains. I could not sleep. There was an awful stillness in the house, a stillness that was painful. I studied the Scriptures and tried to understand why I was so haunted by visions. Each day some new phase of the. matter would dawn on me. One night I lay awake thinking of the power of God and the coming of His Kingdom. I was told that I must sacrifice a member of my family, even as Abraham was commanded to offer up his first born, tho child of his old age, in whom the promise of salvation for Israel was to be fulfilled. I told my wife about it, and we discussed the matter. She asked me which one the Lord demanded, and I said I did not know. But I said it would yet come, and that if it should happen to be herself I told her to be prepared to comply with the desires of the Almighty One. She was very calm, and I saw that she, too, had faith in the coming of God's kingdom. Next dav mv head felt a little better, and I knew that the load was lifting. Each day thereafter I found new light; some Dassasre in the Bible which before I could not understand came to me with all the clearness of established convio- tion. At last the day came. The house was surrounded by an awful stillness. Evening arrived, and as darkness set in I saw a sheet of lightning in the heavens such as I had never seen be fore. It illumined the whole expanse of the sky, and I knew that God was giving me a sign. I went to bed and triea to sleep, due couia not. in uio dead of night the word came. The victim was selected. It was Edith. I told my wife that the hour had come, and that I must give our darling to the Lord. You know the rest. You know how I went into the room where our little ones were sleeping the sleep of the innocent; how I sent the oldest cllild to its mother; how I raised the knife, expecting to have my arm stayed as was that of Abraham, and how I pierced the infant breast of the victim selected bv God Himself. I then lay down be side my dead child and slept soundly. Next day my head felt better. The pain had all gone, and I knew that my sacrifice was acceptable to the eyes of God. I called in the friends of God's new kingdom and imparted the glad tidings to them. They approved the act and gave glory and praise to God. That night I again saw the lightning in the neavens. it was more minium tunu the preoeding evening. It was a strange light, and whether others saw it or not I care not To me it was a sure sign that God was pleased, and I understood it at once." " Did vou have a revelation that Edith would be raised from the deadP" " Yea; that night I saw it in my sleep. It was not as clear as the one which bade me offer her up, and I thought that perhaps Wa was trying my iaim; but I believed it implicitly. You know how I was arrested and brought here. The only thing I regretted was the fact that I could net to present nliou my darling would rise from the grave glorified. 1 waited for the glad tidings of her resurrection, but none came. At first I thought that the enemies of God were keeping the news from me so as to thwart the divine purpose. But now I believe that the manifestations ot mi . . . . i rjurrjose must come in some omet way." , Death from Toothache. A Miss STEVENs.of Wal ton, Del aware County, died on May 1st of toothache. Although this is a rare occurrence this is an undisputed case of death resulting from an excruciating toothache. The victim, who was a young American woman employed in a family in Walton, had suffered some days with a terrible toothache, which accompanied an ul cerated iaw. An attempt was made to extract the troublesome membors, but her teeth were broken off and her faceJ. was too sore to permit their removal by the painful process of cutting away the gums. The girl suffered entire nervous prostration from the extreme Sain, ana gradually sank under it until oath ended her sufferings. An army surgeon, who attended her, pronounced her symptoms the same as those following an amputation of a imb. Middle- ton (N. Y.) Press. " Hello! Bill, look at them apples. Let's climb the fence an' git some." "Stop; don't do it. There's thebig-c-est kind of a bulldog over there." " Ii thereP Well, it wouid be wrong, anyhow. The good book says we mustn't oovet our neighbor s apples, or anything else thats his'n." Newark Call, MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. The watchword of life Tick. Tankers Statesman. It is claimed that men born blind never learn to smoke. The Cheyennes pull out their eyebrows as fast as they grow. " No FisniNG Aloud!" reads a sign by a brook near Binghampton. The loafer exodus will never take place. New Orleans Picayune. The sound of the boy being boot-jacked travels at the rate of 350 feet per second. Puck says that a man learning to play the cornet interests all his neighbors in a horn, v Chills are quite common among the carpets. They have a good many shakes. Bartord Sunday Journal. The smaller the girl the larger the wax doll necessary to appease ner incipient natural affection. New Haven Iteqister, In Louisiana a negro had a dog killed by a train and in revenge be ditched a freight train and wrecked eleven cars. Among recent arrivals at the Boston Dead Letter Office are four Florida oranges, a piece of wedding cake and a Bologna sausage. According to the Hartford Post, there are four seasons the circus season, the green-apple season, Fourth of July, ana winter. When a mother, says the Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald, graps a fine comb and calls her child, a hair-rowing scene generally follows. The best preserved part of a house is tbe door jam, and the coldest is the frieze, although the corn-ice is pretty near it Steubenville Herald. No one knows how much comfort a Eerson can take smoking in bed until e has tried it and called put the fire department. Detroit Free Press. Vassar girl, eating her first gooseberries: "N' urn! N'yum! yum m m m! Wouldn't I like to see the goose that laid these berries." AT. Y. Star. One advantage, says the Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald, ot having a cork leg is that the possessor of it can cut his corns in half the time it takes an ordinary mortal. Let the dogs bark; but, confound them, they shan't do all the growling not if tho forty-odd millions of people in these United States know themselves Boston Transcript. A young lady ate half a wedding cako and then tried to dream of her future husband. Now she says that she would rather die than marry the man she saw in that dream. N. Y. Journal. The Chinese are more and more ousting; Europeans from the profits they have hitherto enjoyed. They have lately formed at Hong Kong a Chinese Marine Insurance Company with a capital of $600,000. A little boy once called out to his father, who had mounted his horse for journey. " Good-bye, papa, 1 love you thirty miles long." A little sister auickly added, " uooa-Bye, aear papa; you will never ride to the end of my love." An agricultural school for girls has been provided for by the Michigan Legislature. Good heavens! is woman to whistle at the plow while man stays at home and butters and cheeses it be side the baby? Another flood is an evident necessity. N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. The Yonkers Statesman tells the fol lowing yarn: "What gentleman says stutlii?P" said old Podge, as he dove down in a piece of veal after the dressing. " No gentleman says stuflin' !" quickly replied his indignant daughter of seventeen, who had just returned from Vassar. Quoth a wise man to a yonth ene day : "Tell me your aim in life, I pray!" "A mighty General I'd bo," Replied the youth, ambitiously. Then quoth the stripling to the sage: " Tell me your aim In your old age." Then said the sage, a little tired, " Aim! 0 1 I have no aim ; I've fired." One hundred and sixty-two au thentic cases of living burial are put on record by the eminent French physi cian, Dr. Josat. The period of unconsciousness before burial, in these cases, lasted from two hours to forty-two. The causes of apparent death were these: Syncope, hysteria, apoplexy, narcotism, concussion of brain, antes- thesis, lightning and drunkenness. A tree 825 feet high, in the neigh borhood of Stockton, Cal., has hitherto enjoyed the reputation of hninw the tallest in the world; Dut an omciai oi the Forests Department in Victoria, Australia, lately measured a fallen eucalyptus in Gippsland, which was 435 feet long. Another tree of the same species in the Dandenong district of Victoria, still standing, is estimated at 450 feet. A Zulu Prince, of the sonorous name Umkwe Cantaba, and a first cousin of King Cetewayo, arrived recently at Helsingborg, a town in Southern Sweden of about 3,000 inhabitants. He was in company with a Swedish missionary, Witt, who has labored several years among the Zulus, ana converxea " . I . T. , II- I among otners mis iioyai nifjuuess Prince Umkwe Cantaba to Christianity. As the arrival of the distinguished guest had been made known beforehand, the whole town turned out to look at him. He was found to be both handsomo and noble-looking, but he startled people first by taking his seat on the box beside the driver, and next by exclaiming: ' I never knew before that there were so many white men in the world. From their war with my cousin, I thought that they were rather a small tribe." A Baltimore man recently wrote to Herbert Spencer for an explanation of the paradoxical customs of the Japanese, citing examples as follows: " A piece of cord in Japan is twisted from left to right in the process of manufacture. A plane is drawn toward the per-ann nainff it The teeth of a saw are so sot' that it is the upward pull whioh cuts. Their books commence at what we would call the end, turning the leaves from left to right and the pages are numbered at the foot The face of their clock moves and the hands are stationary. They say 'Itisfouroclock,' meaning that it lacks four hours of be ing noon, while witb us it is always so much past the starting point." Mr. Spencer replied that the question involves " a wider range than at first sight appears," but declined to express his views, on the plea of lack of time. And now the good man of the house getteth up with the sun and arrangetb himself in a pair of overalls and a linen ulster, and taketh the hoe and goeth forth to battle with the weeds that ob struct the growth of the flowers in the front yard. And while digging about the roots of a beautiful " ooiognia," he accidentally layeth the hoe at its root and it loppeth over and is no more a thing of beauty. And the good man is sorely troubled, and quickly sticketh it back into the warm soil of the garden, and leaveth it, and keepeth mum. And to-morrow he will call his wife's attention to its dying condition, and will dig with his fingers about the root, and pretend to find an ugly and wicked cut-worm, and will hastily crush it into the ground with his boot heel. And he wul mourn with his wife and comfort her. Peck's Milwaukee Sun. LEGISLATIVE. Smalt, May 14. The bill changing tbe Fourth Judicial District and establishing a Tenth Judicial District was read tbe third time and lost. The following bills were Introduced: Allowing townships to appropriate additional grounds for cemeteries; pensioning the honorably discharged soldiers, of the Mexican war, and their widows, at the rate of Lf.8 per month. Houte. Senate bill abolishing the Cincinnati Board of Public Works and providing for a new board to be appointed by the Police Judge was passed by a strict party vote. Benate, May 15. Several bills of no general Interest were Introduced and tbe Benate adjourned.Bowie. Bills passed : The codified bills revising the laws relating to persons; authorizing the licensing of dogs to run at large in municipal corporations. Senate, May 16. After bearing the reading of several bills tbe second time the Senate adjourned until tbe 20th. Houte. The following bills were passed: Providing for the binding in muslin of all tbe copies of the Secretary of State's report ; providing that a quorum of co operative trade associations shall consist of a majority of the stockholders, and that notice of all meetings shall be sent to all stockholders. Mr. Sturceon moved a suspension of the rules that he might offor a resolution denouncing the President's veto. It was agreed to, and nfs resolution to that effect was Introduced and referred. Adjourned.Houte, May 19. Bills introduced : Amending the law In relation to protection of fences; amendinar the law relative to the encourage ment and protection of line fences. For want of a quorum tbe House adjourned. Senate, Mail 20. After the reading of a numher of messages from the House and re ceiving the amende i report of the Longview Investigating Committee tne senate aa-journed.Houte. Bills passed: Senate bill allowing applications for new trials to be supported by affidavits and oral testimony; providing that prisoners who escape before tbey are sent to the penitentiary shall, on neing recapturea, serve out the full term for which they were sentenced; the codified school law. Fiery Enin. Yesterdat afternoon the largest and most destructive oil fire that ever occurred in the northern field swept over a tract of territory on the east sido of the tram road in Harrisburg Run, which is owned in fee by C. B. & H., and leased in tracks of from ten to fifty acres. The fire which is said to have spread from Eckert & Dodd's lease, was wafted in a north easterly direction, and swept over territory at least one mile in length and fully the same distance in width, cleaning a space of at least 500 acres of every rig, engine house and tank, except a new rig of Wilder & Warner, and a drilling well owned by A. R. Marlin. Everything from the south side of Clark & Babcock's boarding house on the south to John Lovell's boarding house at the extreme north of the tram-road was destroyed by the fire. John Lovel did not attempt to remove his furniture, as tho flames were in the woods all around his premises, and nothing could be removed with safety. The burning oil ran over the tram road in several localities, and in some places got into tho run, but through the exertions of a host of will ing hands the flames were extinguished before tbe combustible material on we opposite side was set on fire. this morning the locality presents a dismal appearance, ana no person is to be seen through the burned district, but around the limits, especially around the tram-road, are groups of men who are thoroughly worn out oy sneer ex haustion. At short intervals some of the waIU flow, and the burning oil ii the only thing to mark where the derrick stood. The scene last evening presented by the flowing of wells in the burnt district was perfectly grand, and at the time was fearful to beuoia ac eacn succeed ing ebullition. The engines and boilers are very badly damaged by the heat of the hre and very few of the rig irons can be used a second time, mere is no enon being made to rebuild tanks, as it will be impossible to get the fire ex tinguished among the well3 until we nave a heavy ram. The fire, at last accounts, was by no means under control, notwithstanding the fact that a large force of men are throwing up embankments and making a hard fight against its crossing the tram-road to the west Last night the fire crossed the hill on the east side and did considerable damage in Pembroke Run, but it is reported to be under control. Mr. G. P. Saunders, who is United States Gauger for that district rendered all the aid possible to save the oil. This morning his task in that section is a light one, and " his occupation is gone.'" Bradford Star, May 13. The following testimonial of a certain Datent medicine speaks for itself: ' Dear Sir Two months ago my wife could scarcely speak, bhe nas taken two bottles of your ' Life Renewer,' and now she can t speak at all. Please send me two more bottles. I wouldn't be without it" Norristown Herald. It is said that the miser business is picking right up, with flattering prospects ahead, The Wild Animal Market. Probably loss is known of the ex tent value and number of tho rare and valuable beasts reared in our own midst than any subject of interest to the public. It horses, cows, colts and , calves have a market value, so have tigera, lions and their young, for of the . latter many are born in the United-States every year. During the past nve or six years no less than seventeen little lions nave seen the light of day, though .OBly six ' reached years of maturity. The details of their nursing are pecu liar. The lioness is not approached until the cubs are fully three or four ( months old. They are then, by means of strategy, separated, and weaning -: commences. A quart of milk, together with nice, boneless, juicy cutlets ana , titbits are given them daily until the ' seventh month, whioh is the critical period of cubs. If tbey get over that they stand a fair chance of living a long time, though the period of tooth sheading, which generally occurs at twelve months, is attended with danger.It is a known fact that lions attached to traveling vans, under proper care, are the most healthy and lively, and thrive bettor than those in zoological gardens. In eight out of ten cases congestion of the lungs carries them off- , The amount of food given a lion is less than one would suppose, thirteen pounds of beef a day, with bones ad libitum, being a fair allowance. When fed regularly they show little disposition to glut themselves, and will rarely exceed fifteen pounds, even, though a chance be given them. The greatest of care is exercised in keeping their cages clean, as they are constantly shedding their hair, an accumulation of which adhering to their food, and, being swallowed, makes them sick. The largest number of those animals are imported from the French province of Algeria. There is no affection in a lion; he knows his keeper and fears him, and will obey him, but there is no affection between them. The value of lions is varied, though a good pair will readily bring $4,000, and the demand is constant. Tigers command about the same price as lions, but are comparatively scarce and not so popular as the lions. Elephants always find a ready market, two or three being imported yearly into this country, and sell without trouble at $6,000 to $8,000. Even a dead elephant will find a ready buyer at from $100 to $300. The African specimens are the finest, being twice the size of their Indian brothers. Giraffes are exceedingly, rare in tho United States, in nearly every case being able only to make the voyage from the Cape to "England or the Continent The voyage to this country enfeebles them so that many die during the trip r immediately after landing here. The least cold sensibly hurts them. They are dainty feeders and much given to consuming cabbages. They fre valued at from $8,000 to $10,000 a pair. The rhinoceros and hippopotamus market is always an active one, as very few have ever reached this country alive. The bath of the latter renders his transportation almost impossible. The South American monkey is always in demand, while those of Africa are a drug on the market, they being dull and lazy and easily caught. The methods of catching them are numerous. In South America the natives fill gourds with rum, which the monkeys drink, and becoming totally unconscious under its effects, are easily taken. In Africa, wooden vessels are used, into which they thrust their hands and cannot remove them. They range in value all the way from $1 up to $500. Africa is the great stock farm for animals. The Boers, a hundred or two miles above the Cape, are constantly catching animals, and find a ready market at Cape Town for them. A Blunder and Its Reward. During his first visit to Paris, M. Lasalle, a distinguished German, pre- sented himself at the house of a well-known lady, to whom he had sent letters of introduction in advance. When the servant opened the door and received his card she conducted him to the boudoir and told him to be seated, saying: "Madame will come immediately'Presently the lady entered. She was dixhaMU and br fet- vere bars, covered only with loose slippers. Sho bowed to him carelessly and said: "Ah, there you are; good morning." She threw herself on a sofa, let fall a slipper, and reached out to Lasalle her very pretty foot. Lasalle was naturally completely astounded, but he remembered that at his home in Germany it was the custom sometimes to kiss a lady's hand, and he supposed it was the Paris mode to kiss her foot. Therefore he did not hesitate to imprint a kiss upon the fascinating foot so near him, but ho could not avoid saying, " I thank you, madam, for this new meinoa oi umiB quaintance. It is much better, and cer tainly more generous, umu nusaiug uio band." 3 The lady jumped up, highly indignant "Who are you, sir, and what do you mean?" He gave his name. You are not then, a corn-doctorP" " I am charmed to say, madam, that I am not" , nut you seni mo wiw cum-uiui a card." It was true. Lasalle, in going out that morning, had picked up the card of a corn-doctor from his bureau and put it in his pocket This, without glancing at he had given to the servant who had taken it to her mistress. There was nothing to do but laugh over the joke. Forney's Progress. Steam carpet-beaters are not failures, but every roan of any business tact knows that his wife can beat a carpet just as thoroughly as any ma-" chine, and that without cost Free Press.

A "T1 ' Amherst Press. bree t '! :..,-,( I - , ,. . , ' '35i Per Annum, in Advance. After two Wv?. f 1 .50 NEW SERlfc&iVoL. IV.-NO. 41. News is as. Healthv as Morning Air. E. M. IE WIS, Editor and Proprietor. AMHERST, OHIO, FRIDAY, MAY 231879. OLI) ;iirES-VOL. VI.-NQ. 45. 16 r 'i i : : i . General Ifews, Summary. 1 ConpreMlonitl. - Benate, May 14. Mr. Vest gave notice of hi Intention to Introduce a bill proposing to organise the Indian Territory Into a Btate, and providing for its admission Into tbe Union. -The Mil te amend tta. Revised Statutes so aa to provide that If two or more persons conspire either to commit an offenee 'against the United States or to defraud the revenue shall, on conviction, be fined 910,01X1 and Imprisoned not more than two years or both, 1 at discretion of court, was passed. CoDslSerattod war then resumed of the Legislative. Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill. All parts of the bill were passed upon with the exception of what la known aa the Legislative portion,- which - appropriates la, 800,000 for defraying expenses of Judiciary and fixing pay of lurors, providing how they shall be selected, repealing the test oath, etc Executive session and ad' journment. House. Consideration was resumed of the bill to amend the laws relating to coinage and to coin and bullion certificates, and Messrs, Fort and Swing addressed the House. Senate, May 15. Mr. Cockrell introduced a joint resolution authorizing and requesting the President of the United States to open correspondence with the Republic of France with the view and for the purpose of negotiating a proper treaty of reciprocity and commerce with that Government on terms alike honorable and lust. Referred. Consideration was then resumed of the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill, and Mr. Thurman addressed the Benate. Adjourned.Bouse. Consideration was resumed of the Warner BUver bill; Several amendments were offered and rejected and without further action the HouseadjOBrned. Benate, May 16. Mr. Maxey introduced a bill authorizing the Secretary of War to purchase sites for forts and posts In Texas. The President pro tern, laid before the Senate a message fiom the President of the United States in reply to a resolution of the 7th Inst, requesting Information relative to the alleged unlawful occupation of a portion of Indian Territory. On motion of Mr. Ingalla It was resolved that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to report to the Senate what amount of legal tender notes has been presented and redeemed In coin since the first of January last, and what amount of coin he considers himself authorized to re tain In the Treasury to maintain specie resumption. Consideration was resumed of the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill, and Messrs. Eaton, Cockling and Kern an addressed the Senate. . Bouse. A resolution was reported from tbe Committee on Rules by Mr. Frye for the appointment of a standing committee to which shall be referred all bills, resolutions, petitions, etc., a&ectlng traffic in alcoholic liquors. After come discussion tbe resolution was adopted. Consideration was then resumed of the Warner Silver bill. Several amendments were offered and rejected, and the Bouse adjourned. Benate, May 17. Consideration of the Legislative, Executive and. Judicial Appropriation bill was resumed. Several amendments were agreed to. After a short executive session the Senate adjourned. Bouse. As business of the morning hour, consideration was resumed of the bill to amend the law relating to the transfer of cases from State to United States Courts. After some discussion the bill went over until athe' 20th. Consideration t.i then resumed of the bill to amend tbe statutes relating to gold and silver coinage and coin and bullion certificates An amendment offered by Mr. Ewlng providing that the Secretary of the Treasury shall issue and deliver to a depositor of silver bullion certificates to an amount equal to the value of such bullion, and that sliver coirs coined from such bullion to the extent of forty per cent.' of such certificates shall be held for redemption thereof and tbe remainder aoplled to the payment of tbe Interest and principal of the public debt was adopted. Adjourned until the 20th. Senate, May 19. A communication wss received from tbe Secretary of the' Treasury, in response to a resolution of the ltttb inst., by which he was directed to report what amount of United States legal tender notes have been redeemed in coin since the first day of January last, and also what amount of coin he considers himself authorized to retain In the Treasury for the purpose of maint aining resumption of specie payments, under the provisions of the act of January 4, 1875. Secretary Sherman writes: "There has been redeemed la coin since January 4, 1679, of legal tender notes an amount of (4,138,513. As to tbe amount of coin authorized to be retained in the Treasury for tbe purpose of maintaining resumption of specie payments, I have to state that under the provisions of the Resumption act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury in order to prepare and provide for the redemption of United States notes, to use any surplus revenue in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to Issue certain bonds of the United States, the coin reserve of tbe Treasury has been increased to 1188,000,000, that being about forty per cent, of the notes outstanding to be redeemed and believed to be the smallest reserve upon which resumption could be prudently commenced and successfully maintained, as fully set forth In my last annual report. This revenue arose from the sale of $95,500,000 bonds, and from surplus revenues a nthnrluRd hv law. and It must, under ex isting law be maintained unimpaired for tbe tmnxis'e for which it was created." Mr. Blaine addressed the Senate on tbe Legislative, Ex ecutive and Judicial Appropriation Din. .executive session and adjournment. Benate,. May 20. -Mr. McDonald asked leave to Introduce a bill authorizing the President of the United States to employ the r.!!!t!l ss 12 ir.u u.Iirciioi the united States to enforce the laws whenever their execution Is 'obstructed by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by jndiclal authorities, etc., and preventing, the military from being used as a potte conutatnt except in cases as authorised by the constitution and laws. Mr. Edmunds objected to the Introduction of the bill on the ground that previous notice bad not been given. Mr. McDonald then withdrew tbe bill and gave notice be should ask leave to Introduce it on the following day. The consideration of the Legislative, Judicial and Executive Appropriation bill was then resumed. After discussion pro and am the Senate decided to adhere to the previous understanding and proceeded to vote. Mr. Ed mund's motion to strike out tbe clauses repealing tbe statute relative to the test oath was lost yeas, 2fi; nays, 87. Mr. Edmunds then moved to strike out the clause establish-- tng the mode of drawing United States jurors which was lost. The Senate also refused to strike out tbe clause repealing the statutes relating to United States Marshals and Supervisors of Election. The bill was then read the third time and passed yeas, 87; navs, 27. 'Tbe Contagious Disease bill was taken up on motion of Mr. Harris. W ltbout taking any action thereon adjourned until the 22d. Bouse. The business of tbe morning hour was the. bill 4o amend the laws relating to the transfer of laws from State to Federal court.' "THe" Bill wal Haally laid on the table. Consideration was then resumed of the Warner ! Stlyef bill, : the i question being . 00 the third section (allowing deposit ' of bullion ' at any mint and Its being carried for the benefit of the owner.) . Mr. Fort's substitute was defeated, and the question then recurring on the section It was agreed to yeas, 118; nays, 110. The question then recurred on the fourth section, which merely provides that charge for melting and refining shall be fixed by tbe Director of the Mint. Mr. Marsh submitted an amendment tliat the charges shall be the difference between tbe market of bullion and the legal tender of coin. Agreed to yeas, 117; nays, 105. A motion to reeonslder and lay that motion on the table (the parliamentary formula of making the vote final) Was then made and carried. Adjourned. Wsuhlngtoau Secretary McCbart, In conformity with a decision of Judge Dundy in the Ponca Indian habeat eorput case, has directed that tbose Indians bo released. The decision of Judge Dundy is regarded by the Government as a heavy blow to tbe present Indian system, and if sustained will prove extremely dangerous alike to whites and Indians. .The District Attorney at Omaha has been instructed to take the necessary steps to carry the question to a higher court. The Department of State bas been informed by Hoffman, charge at St. Petersburg, that every one coming into Russia must be provided with a passport verified by the Russian Consul. He must be registered at the police station, and must comply with tbe regulations or be subject to a fine or lmprls-mentThe Secretary of the Treasury says It to useless to send telegrams to the Department for ten dollar certificates, as they will be sent In due proportion to all different offices authorized to sell them as soon as they can be printed, and the supply will soon reach $3,000,000 a day. A delegation of Cheyenne Indians arrived at Washington on the 15th and had an Interview with the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with tbe view of procuring the consent of the Government to their return from Indian Territory to their recent homes. The House Committee on Rules have asked for the appointment of a special committee to take charge of and report upon the subject of woman suffrage. - Ik response to a letter from Secretary Schurz inquiring what amount of funds can be made available monthly for the payment of arrears due upon pensions allowed ?rlor to January 25, 1879, the Secretary of the reasury states that, including the amount already paid, $2,500,000 will be available prior to July 1 st, and $2,000,000 monthly thereafter. At this rate nearly the whole of the next fiscal year will be required to complete the payment of these arrears. The Ways and Means Committee 'nave agreed not to consider, at this session, any bills or joint resolutions affecting revenues, and that all such measures shall be laid over until the regular session In December. The F.nst. Minister White sailed from New Tork for Berlin on the 15th. The Presbyterian General Assembly met in annual session at Saratoga on the 15th. Rev. Dr. Henry H. Jess up, of the Byrlan Mission, was elected Moderator. The New York Legislature has passed a bill making six per cent, the legal rate of interest in that State. Flaherty and Bennett, members of the Brooklyn Board of Public Works, were convicted by a jury, on the 16th, of conspiracy In maintaining upon the pay-rolls about election time a targe numoer ui ibuuicib nuu-out work for them. John and Bobert Boas, miners at Easton, Pa., wero burled 900 feet below the surface, on the 17th, by the caving of the ore. Robert was taken out dead. John's body was not reached. Judge Asa Packer died at Philadelphia on the 17th, in the seventy-third year of bis age. . A steam yacht ran on the rocks in Little Hell (late on the 18th and upset. Three of the seven passengers were drowned. The breaker at the Stanton shaft of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Company burned on the 18th. Tbe original cost of the breaker and shaft was $250,000. The breakor was Insured for $49,000. Ex-State Senator J. B. Cornish, of Belvldere, N. J., convicted of conspiring to defraud the county of $10,000, and J. 11. Sweeney, ex-Chief of Police, of Phlllipsburg, mnvlcted of ralslne the county bill, were each sentenced to one year la the 8tate prison on the 17th. Mr. and Mrs. Wren and a Mrs, Howell were In a small boat on the Susque hanna River, at Kopp's Biding, near Sunbury, Pa., on the 19th, when the boat capsized and the two women were urowueu. An extensive fire was raging in the Keystone Mine, Pottsville, Pa,, on the 19th, and serious results were feared. A special session of the Labor Reform League began at Boston on the 19th. Ex-Governor Asahel Peck, of Vermont, died at Waterbury on the 19th. The body of Colonel Groesbeok, who mysteriously disappeared from his home in New York City several weens ago, was iouna in North River on the 20th. W. W. Bishop, the accomplice of Mrs. Cobb in a couple of Norwich, Conn. murders, was, on the 20th, sent to the pen itentiary for life. Williams. Bibnie & Co., cotton merchants at New York, failed on toe 20th. The Italian bark Amalfi, which sailed from New York on the 17th with a cargo of 14,200 barrels of refined petroleum, burned to the water's edge on'the 20th. Two HUNDRED and fifty thousand bales of cotton were sold at New York City on the 20th for future delivery. West and South. In the United States Circuit Court at Richmond, Vs., on the 14tb, Judge Hughes refused to grant a writ of habetu eorput In the mfaAirpnAt.lnn rue nf Edmund Kinney" and Mary Hall on the ground that the united States uourts nave no jurisaicuuu over tua question of marriage. A remarkable billiard match was played at Chicago on the 15th between Jacob Schaefer and George F. Slosson. The game was for tbe three-ball championship, 1,000 points up. Bchaefer won In tbree runs, mail ing tbe unprecedented average of Captain Lincoln, of the Fourth Cav alry, shot and killed a soldier of tbe Twenty- second ln.'antry, for mutiny at Ban Antonio, Texas, on the 14th. The General Assembly of the Pres byterian Church South began its annual con vention at Louisville on the 15th. The bursting of a water-spout in the western part of Louisville on the 15th was attended with considerable damage to property, but no loss of life. . Executions on the 16th: Wallace Wllkerson, at Provo, Utah, for the murder of Baxter two years ago. He was shot to death according to the Utah custom. John I. West, at Boonvllle, Mo., for tbe murder of Shinn; Henrf Alphonso Davis (white), Henry T. An drews (wmtei ana Lewis uanton icoioreai, noted burelars. at Hlllsboro. N. C. Tbe hanging of Davis and Carlton was badly managed, the ropes being too long and their feet rested on the ground. They were raised and the ropes relied, causing death from strangulation. ' R. W. Boisselieb and his brother Casper D. Bolsselier, of German parentage, but born in St. Louis, who, however, spent most of their boyhod and were educated in Germany, have sent a letter to Secretary of Btate Evarts stating that for the past two years they have been greatly annoyed by Prussian officials claiming they are under obligations to serve In the Prussian army. Their father, wbo is a naturalized citizen of the United States, but now residing in Germany, has been threatened with confiscation and attachment of a portion or all of money or property he may see fit to bequeath to them If they fail to appear in- court at tbe city of Schleswlg on the second day of July next. The brothers have resided and done business In St, Louis since 1873 and are regis tered voters. , Chief Moses says the reservation they are going to put him on U not the one he asked for and was given him; He wants the Corvllle reservation. Secretary. Schurz has been telegraphed for Instructions. The business portion of Farmersville, La., was burned on the With. The loss is esti mated at $100,000. A convention of colored delegates met at Richmond, Va, on the 19th for the purpose of considering matters connected with the welfare, rights and Improvement of the condition of their race. A resolution was passed recommending the colored people throughout tbe Btate to organise themselves Into emigration societies for the purpose of leaving the State, provided their condition is not bettered by the authorities of the State. L. LANOLEHiM.a German, living near Antloch, Contra Costa County, Cel., on the 16th, took bis little boy and girl, aged respectively six and four years, beat them to death with a club, cut their throats, and then went to the house and blew out his own brains with a shot-gun. The act is attributed to temporary insanity. The war among the trunk lines at Chicago extended to passenger rates on the 19th. ' The Missouri Legislature adjourned tine die on the 20th. Orlander Cassler was hanged at Seward, Neb., on the 20th. N. A. Hull and Eugene Goulding, aro being tried at Jacksonville, Fla , on the charge of conspiring to defraud voters in Brevard County, that State, last November. William Nelson, colored, was sen tenced, at Terre Haute, Ind., on the 20th, to tbe penitentiary for one year and fined $1,000 for marrying a white woman. The Chicago Inter-Ocean, on the 20th, published an analysis of about 800 let ters which It had received from seven States and Territories etvlnir the condition of the growing crops. In Illinois, winter and spring wheat have a trifle larger acreage than last year. Wisconsin, small grains are rather backward, owing to dry weaf.her. Dry weather injured the wneat prospects ior a wane in Minnesota, but recent showers have brought It into excellent condition. Dakota, Nebras ka, Kansas and Iowa report an increased acreage of wheat, and in fine condition. Foreign Intelligence. At Toronto, Canada, on the 13th, three children were burned to death while at play In a shed. The Porte is about to send a com mission of Sottas to tranqulllie the Albanians, who are very much dissatisfied. An uprising Is feared. The Porte has received official infor mation of the intentions of France and England with regard to Egypt. There Is no Intention of deposing the Khedive. Floods are again doing great dam age in Hungary. The village of Halos was completely inundated on the 14th, and 800 houues In Koltori were destroyed. It was announced in the German Reichstag on the 14th that Austria and Rus sia had consented to become parties to the' Anglo-German treaty for the prevention of the slave trade on the African coast, but that France and the United States, though asked to do so, were hardly expected to join, as they were unwilling to the mutual right of search. The coal miners at Durham, En gland, who have been out on a strike for sev eral weeks, have decided to go to work at re duced wages. Four villages on the banks of the Plattense, in Hungary, were flooded on the 15th. Russia has communicated her evacu ation programme showing that evacuation will be completed before the ena oi Juiy. Jacob Staempfli, a Swiss politician, and in 1861 President of the Swiss Confedera tion, and subsequently a member of the Geneva Court of Arbitration on Alabama Claims, is dead. The marriage of King Alfonso, of Spain, will take place In October or November. The rebellion in New Grenada has terminated. The Chilians bombarded Pisagua, several days ago, and reduced It to ashes, causing a loss of about 1,000,000 soles. Tn trsamg companies ci ui oiu- kanlsche Handelsvereinigung and the Oom- mandltore hankverelnlgung, of Rotterdam, bave failed. The total liabilities are about 750,000. . The German Reichstag have adopted the Government's proposals relative to duties on raw and broken iron. The greater part of Lublin City, in Russian-Poland, having a population of about 20,000, has been destroyed by fire. Vesuvius was in a slight state of eruption on the 16th. A dispatch to the London Times says the Government has arranged a satisfactory basis of negotiations with Yakoob Khan comprehending the main objects of the British policy. A Paris paper announces that negotiations relating to the Greek question commence at Constantinople early In June, rid nartakeof the character of a conference. All the powers agreed to this proposal except England. The Sultan has issued an irade sanc tioning the Eastern Roumelia Constitution. The River Theiss in Hungary bas in undated ninety square miles of grain fields near Beose Becsa, and destroyed two villages. The River Drone has overflowed its banks and destroyed hundreds or nouses. ' Le Royib, the French Minister of Justice, says the Government bas decided not to grant amnesty to members of the com mune, but simply to pardon them after the 6th of June. The recent election in Switzerland resulted in favor of the re-establishment of capital punishment The . Italian Chamber ' of Deputies has passed a bill making the performance of a civil marriage before the religious ceremony obligatory. Robbery by. armed gangs is assum ing alarming proportions in the Dccca and Poona districts in India. The robber have formed a regularorganlzattonundercommand of one Waseado Bulwund, lately a clerk In the Financial Department. They have Issued a manifesto to the Bombay Government threatening another mutiny and to put a price on the bead of the Governor unless distress is relieved. Anarchy, famine and drouth prevail in the districts. A Panama dispatch says General Renjlfo has announced his intention of executing General Marulanda and several of the officers captured at the battle of Aguados, on tbe ground that tbey prolonged the revolution against the Government after they had lost all hone of success. A firman of the Porte was read in Pristina and Novl Bazar, on tbe 19th, threatening death to any person who attacks Austrian troops. Negotiations for the transfer of the administration of Eastern Roumelia to Gov-erno Aleko Pasha have been satisfactorily concluded. Yon Forckenbeck bas offered his resignation as President of the German Reichstag. Ill health and the antagonism between his own views and those of the majority are the reasons given. The assailant of General Dreutolms has been arrested at Kleff. The German Government has resolved to restrict the sales of silver temporarily, and may possibly suspend them altogether. - Why HeKillcd Her. Freeman, the Pocasset murderer, told a newspaper reporter how he came to murder his child. He said: " I had been feeling badly for two weeks. My head was racked with pains. I could not sleep. There was an awful stillness in the house, a stillness that was painful. I studied the Scriptures and tried to understand why I was so haunted by visions. Each day some new phase of the. matter would dawn on me. One night I lay awake thinking of the power of God and the coming of His Kingdom. I was told that I must sacrifice a member of my family, even as Abraham was commanded to offer up his first born, tho child of his old age, in whom the promise of salvation for Israel was to be fulfilled. I told my wife about it, and we discussed the matter. She asked me which one the Lord demanded, and I said I did not know. But I said it would yet come, and that if it should happen to be herself I told her to be prepared to comply with the desires of the Almighty One. She was very calm, and I saw that she, too, had faith in the coming of God's kingdom. Next dav mv head felt a little better, and I knew that the load was lifting. Each day thereafter I found new light; some Dassasre in the Bible which before I could not understand came to me with all the clearness of established convio- tion. At last the day came. The house was surrounded by an awful stillness. Evening arrived, and as darkness set in I saw a sheet of lightning in the heavens such as I had never seen be fore. It illumined the whole expanse of the sky, and I knew that God was giving me a sign. I went to bed and triea to sleep, due couia not. in uio dead of night the word came. The victim was selected. It was Edith. I told my wife that the hour had come, and that I must give our darling to the Lord. You know the rest. You know how I went into the room where our little ones were sleeping the sleep of the innocent; how I sent the oldest cllild to its mother; how I raised the knife, expecting to have my arm stayed as was that of Abraham, and how I pierced the infant breast of the victim selected bv God Himself. I then lay down be side my dead child and slept soundly. Next day my head felt better. The pain had all gone, and I knew that my sacrifice was acceptable to the eyes of God. I called in the friends of God's new kingdom and imparted the glad tidings to them. They approved the act and gave glory and praise to God. That night I again saw the lightning in the neavens. it was more minium tunu the preoeding evening. It was a strange light, and whether others saw it or not I care not To me it was a sure sign that God was pleased, and I understood it at once." " Did vou have a revelation that Edith would be raised from the deadP" " Yea; that night I saw it in my sleep. It was not as clear as the one which bade me offer her up, and I thought that perhaps Wa was trying my iaim; but I believed it implicitly. You know how I was arrested and brought here. The only thing I regretted was the fact that I could net to present nliou my darling would rise from the grave glorified. 1 waited for the glad tidings of her resurrection, but none came. At first I thought that the enemies of God were keeping the news from me so as to thwart the divine purpose. But now I believe that the manifestations ot mi . . . . i rjurrjose must come in some omet way." , Death from Toothache. A Miss STEVENs.of Wal ton, Del aware County, died on May 1st of toothache. Although this is a rare occurrence this is an undisputed case of death resulting from an excruciating toothache. The victim, who was a young American woman employed in a family in Walton, had suffered some days with a terrible toothache, which accompanied an ul cerated iaw. An attempt was made to extract the troublesome membors, but her teeth were broken off and her faceJ. was too sore to permit their removal by the painful process of cutting away the gums. The girl suffered entire nervous prostration from the extreme Sain, ana gradually sank under it until oath ended her sufferings. An army surgeon, who attended her, pronounced her symptoms the same as those following an amputation of a imb. Middle- ton (N. Y.) Press. " Hello! Bill, look at them apples. Let's climb the fence an' git some." "Stop; don't do it. There's thebig-c-est kind of a bulldog over there." " Ii thereP Well, it wouid be wrong, anyhow. The good book says we mustn't oovet our neighbor s apples, or anything else thats his'n." Newark Call, MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. The watchword of life Tick. Tankers Statesman. It is claimed that men born blind never learn to smoke. The Cheyennes pull out their eyebrows as fast as they grow. " No FisniNG Aloud!" reads a sign by a brook near Binghampton. The loafer exodus will never take place. New Orleans Picayune. The sound of the boy being boot-jacked travels at the rate of 350 feet per second. Puck says that a man learning to play the cornet interests all his neighbors in a horn, v Chills are quite common among the carpets. They have a good many shakes. Bartord Sunday Journal. The smaller the girl the larger the wax doll necessary to appease ner incipient natural affection. New Haven Iteqister, In Louisiana a negro had a dog killed by a train and in revenge be ditched a freight train and wrecked eleven cars. Among recent arrivals at the Boston Dead Letter Office are four Florida oranges, a piece of wedding cake and a Bologna sausage. According to the Hartford Post, there are four seasons the circus season, the green-apple season, Fourth of July, ana winter. When a mother, says the Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald, graps a fine comb and calls her child, a hair-rowing scene generally follows. The best preserved part of a house is tbe door jam, and the coldest is the frieze, although the corn-ice is pretty near it Steubenville Herald. No one knows how much comfort a Eerson can take smoking in bed until e has tried it and called put the fire department. Detroit Free Press. Vassar girl, eating her first gooseberries: "N' urn! N'yum! yum m m m! Wouldn't I like to see the goose that laid these berries." AT. Y. Star. One advantage, says the Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald, ot having a cork leg is that the possessor of it can cut his corns in half the time it takes an ordinary mortal. Let the dogs bark; but, confound them, they shan't do all the growling not if tho forty-odd millions of people in these United States know themselves Boston Transcript. A young lady ate half a wedding cako and then tried to dream of her future husband. Now she says that she would rather die than marry the man she saw in that dream. N. Y. Journal. The Chinese are more and more ousting; Europeans from the profits they have hitherto enjoyed. They have lately formed at Hong Kong a Chinese Marine Insurance Company with a capital of $600,000. A little boy once called out to his father, who had mounted his horse for journey. " Good-bye, papa, 1 love you thirty miles long." A little sister auickly added, " uooa-Bye, aear papa; you will never ride to the end of my love." An agricultural school for girls has been provided for by the Michigan Legislature. Good heavens! is woman to whistle at the plow while man stays at home and butters and cheeses it be side the baby? Another flood is an evident necessity. N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. The Yonkers Statesman tells the fol lowing yarn: "What gentleman says stutlii?P" said old Podge, as he dove down in a piece of veal after the dressing. " No gentleman says stuflin' !" quickly replied his indignant daughter of seventeen, who had just returned from Vassar. Quoth a wise man to a yonth ene day : "Tell me your aim in life, I pray!" "A mighty General I'd bo," Replied the youth, ambitiously. Then quoth the stripling to the sage: " Tell me your aim In your old age." Then said the sage, a little tired, " Aim! 0 1 I have no aim ; I've fired." One hundred and sixty-two au thentic cases of living burial are put on record by the eminent French physi cian, Dr. Josat. The period of unconsciousness before burial, in these cases, lasted from two hours to forty-two. The causes of apparent death were these: Syncope, hysteria, apoplexy, narcotism, concussion of brain, antes- thesis, lightning and drunkenness. A tree 825 feet high, in the neigh borhood of Stockton, Cal., has hitherto enjoyed the reputation of hninw the tallest in the world; Dut an omciai oi the Forests Department in Victoria, Australia, lately measured a fallen eucalyptus in Gippsland, which was 435 feet long. Another tree of the same species in the Dandenong district of Victoria, still standing, is estimated at 450 feet. A Zulu Prince, of the sonorous name Umkwe Cantaba, and a first cousin of King Cetewayo, arrived recently at Helsingborg, a town in Southern Sweden of about 3,000 inhabitants. He was in company with a Swedish missionary, Witt, who has labored several years among the Zulus, ana converxea " . I . T. , II- I among otners mis iioyai nifjuuess Prince Umkwe Cantaba to Christianity. As the arrival of the distinguished guest had been made known beforehand, the whole town turned out to look at him. He was found to be both handsomo and noble-looking, but he startled people first by taking his seat on the box beside the driver, and next by exclaiming: ' I never knew before that there were so many white men in the world. From their war with my cousin, I thought that they were rather a small tribe." A Baltimore man recently wrote to Herbert Spencer for an explanation of the paradoxical customs of the Japanese, citing examples as follows: " A piece of cord in Japan is twisted from left to right in the process of manufacture. A plane is drawn toward the per-ann nainff it The teeth of a saw are so sot' that it is the upward pull whioh cuts. Their books commence at what we would call the end, turning the leaves from left to right and the pages are numbered at the foot The face of their clock moves and the hands are stationary. They say 'Itisfouroclock,' meaning that it lacks four hours of be ing noon, while witb us it is always so much past the starting point." Mr. Spencer replied that the question involves " a wider range than at first sight appears," but declined to express his views, on the plea of lack of time. And now the good man of the house getteth up with the sun and arrangetb himself in a pair of overalls and a linen ulster, and taketh the hoe and goeth forth to battle with the weeds that ob struct the growth of the flowers in the front yard. And while digging about the roots of a beautiful " ooiognia," he accidentally layeth the hoe at its root and it loppeth over and is no more a thing of beauty. And the good man is sorely troubled, and quickly sticketh it back into the warm soil of the garden, and leaveth it, and keepeth mum. And to-morrow he will call his wife's attention to its dying condition, and will dig with his fingers about the root, and pretend to find an ugly and wicked cut-worm, and will hastily crush it into the ground with his boot heel. And he wul mourn with his wife and comfort her. Peck's Milwaukee Sun. LEGISLATIVE. Smalt, May 14. The bill changing tbe Fourth Judicial District and establishing a Tenth Judicial District was read tbe third time and lost. The following bills were Introduced: Allowing townships to appropriate additional grounds for cemeteries; pensioning the honorably discharged soldiers, of the Mexican war, and their widows, at the rate of Lf.8 per month. Houte. Senate bill abolishing the Cincinnati Board of Public Works and providing for a new board to be appointed by the Police Judge was passed by a strict party vote. Benate, May 15. Several bills of no general Interest were Introduced and tbe Benate adjourned.Bowie. Bills passed : The codified bills revising the laws relating to persons; authorizing the licensing of dogs to run at large in municipal corporations. Senate, May 16. After bearing the reading of several bills tbe second time the Senate adjourned until tbe 20th. Houte. The following bills were passed: Providing for the binding in muslin of all tbe copies of the Secretary of State's report ; providing that a quorum of co operative trade associations shall consist of a majority of the stockholders, and that notice of all meetings shall be sent to all stockholders. Mr. Sturceon moved a suspension of the rules that he might offor a resolution denouncing the President's veto. It was agreed to, and nfs resolution to that effect was Introduced and referred. Adjourned.Houte, May 19. Bills introduced : Amending the law In relation to protection of fences; amendinar the law relative to the encourage ment and protection of line fences. For want of a quorum tbe House adjourned. Senate, Mail 20. After the reading of a numher of messages from the House and re ceiving the amende i report of the Longview Investigating Committee tne senate aa-journed.Houte. Bills passed: Senate bill allowing applications for new trials to be supported by affidavits and oral testimony; providing that prisoners who escape before tbey are sent to the penitentiary shall, on neing recapturea, serve out the full term for which they were sentenced; the codified school law. Fiery Enin. Yesterdat afternoon the largest and most destructive oil fire that ever occurred in the northern field swept over a tract of territory on the east sido of the tram road in Harrisburg Run, which is owned in fee by C. B. & H., and leased in tracks of from ten to fifty acres. The fire which is said to have spread from Eckert & Dodd's lease, was wafted in a north easterly direction, and swept over territory at least one mile in length and fully the same distance in width, cleaning a space of at least 500 acres of every rig, engine house and tank, except a new rig of Wilder & Warner, and a drilling well owned by A. R. Marlin. Everything from the south side of Clark & Babcock's boarding house on the south to John Lovell's boarding house at the extreme north of the tram-road was destroyed by the fire. John Lovel did not attempt to remove his furniture, as tho flames were in the woods all around his premises, and nothing could be removed with safety. The burning oil ran over the tram road in several localities, and in some places got into tho run, but through the exertions of a host of will ing hands the flames were extinguished before tbe combustible material on we opposite side was set on fire. this morning the locality presents a dismal appearance, ana no person is to be seen through the burned district, but around the limits, especially around the tram-road, are groups of men who are thoroughly worn out oy sneer ex haustion. At short intervals some of the waIU flow, and the burning oil ii the only thing to mark where the derrick stood. The scene last evening presented by the flowing of wells in the burnt district was perfectly grand, and at the time was fearful to beuoia ac eacn succeed ing ebullition. The engines and boilers are very badly damaged by the heat of the hre and very few of the rig irons can be used a second time, mere is no enon being made to rebuild tanks, as it will be impossible to get the fire ex tinguished among the well3 until we nave a heavy ram. The fire, at last accounts, was by no means under control, notwithstanding the fact that a large force of men are throwing up embankments and making a hard fight against its crossing the tram-road to the west Last night the fire crossed the hill on the east side and did considerable damage in Pembroke Run, but it is reported to be under control. Mr. G. P. Saunders, who is United States Gauger for that district rendered all the aid possible to save the oil. This morning his task in that section is a light one, and " his occupation is gone.'" Bradford Star, May 13. The following testimonial of a certain Datent medicine speaks for itself: ' Dear Sir Two months ago my wife could scarcely speak, bhe nas taken two bottles of your ' Life Renewer,' and now she can t speak at all. Please send me two more bottles. I wouldn't be without it" Norristown Herald. It is said that the miser business is picking right up, with flattering prospects ahead, The Wild Animal Market. Probably loss is known of the ex tent value and number of tho rare and valuable beasts reared in our own midst than any subject of interest to the public. It horses, cows, colts and , calves have a market value, so have tigera, lions and their young, for of the . latter many are born in the United-States every year. During the past nve or six years no less than seventeen little lions nave seen the light of day, though .OBly six ' reached years of maturity. The details of their nursing are pecu liar. The lioness is not approached until the cubs are fully three or four ( months old. They are then, by means of strategy, separated, and weaning -: commences. A quart of milk, together with nice, boneless, juicy cutlets ana , titbits are given them daily until the ' seventh month, whioh is the critical period of cubs. If tbey get over that they stand a fair chance of living a long time, though the period of tooth sheading, which generally occurs at twelve months, is attended with danger.It is a known fact that lions attached to traveling vans, under proper care, are the most healthy and lively, and thrive bettor than those in zoological gardens. In eight out of ten cases congestion of the lungs carries them off- , The amount of food given a lion is less than one would suppose, thirteen pounds of beef a day, with bones ad libitum, being a fair allowance. When fed regularly they show little disposition to glut themselves, and will rarely exceed fifteen pounds, even, though a chance be given them. The greatest of care is exercised in keeping their cages clean, as they are constantly shedding their hair, an accumulation of which adhering to their food, and, being swallowed, makes them sick. The largest number of those animals are imported from the French province of Algeria. There is no affection in a lion; he knows his keeper and fears him, and will obey him, but there is no affection between them. The value of lions is varied, though a good pair will readily bring $4,000, and the demand is constant. Tigers command about the same price as lions, but are comparatively scarce and not so popular as the lions. Elephants always find a ready market, two or three being imported yearly into this country, and sell without trouble at $6,000 to $8,000. Even a dead elephant will find a ready buyer at from $100 to $300. The African specimens are the finest, being twice the size of their Indian brothers. Giraffes are exceedingly, rare in tho United States, in nearly every case being able only to make the voyage from the Cape to "England or the Continent The voyage to this country enfeebles them so that many die during the trip r immediately after landing here. The least cold sensibly hurts them. They are dainty feeders and much given to consuming cabbages. They fre valued at from $8,000 to $10,000 a pair. The rhinoceros and hippopotamus market is always an active one, as very few have ever reached this country alive. The bath of the latter renders his transportation almost impossible. The South American monkey is always in demand, while those of Africa are a drug on the market, they being dull and lazy and easily caught. The methods of catching them are numerous. In South America the natives fill gourds with rum, which the monkeys drink, and becoming totally unconscious under its effects, are easily taken. In Africa, wooden vessels are used, into which they thrust their hands and cannot remove them. They range in value all the way from $1 up to $500. Africa is the great stock farm for animals. The Boers, a hundred or two miles above the Cape, are constantly catching animals, and find a ready market at Cape Town for them. A Blunder and Its Reward. During his first visit to Paris, M. Lasalle, a distinguished German, pre- sented himself at the house of a well-known lady, to whom he had sent letters of introduction in advance. When the servant opened the door and received his card she conducted him to the boudoir and told him to be seated, saying: "Madame will come immediately'Presently the lady entered. She was dixhaMU and br fet- vere bars, covered only with loose slippers. Sho bowed to him carelessly and said: "Ah, there you are; good morning." She threw herself on a sofa, let fall a slipper, and reached out to Lasalle her very pretty foot. Lasalle was naturally completely astounded, but he remembered that at his home in Germany it was the custom sometimes to kiss a lady's hand, and he supposed it was the Paris mode to kiss her foot. Therefore he did not hesitate to imprint a kiss upon the fascinating foot so near him, but ho could not avoid saying, " I thank you, madam, for this new meinoa oi umiB quaintance. It is much better, and cer tainly more generous, umu nusaiug uio band." 3 The lady jumped up, highly indignant "Who are you, sir, and what do you mean?" He gave his name. You are not then, a corn-doctorP" " I am charmed to say, madam, that I am not" , nut you seni mo wiw cum-uiui a card." It was true. Lasalle, in going out that morning, had picked up the card of a corn-doctor from his bureau and put it in his pocket This, without glancing at he had given to the servant who had taken it to her mistress. There was nothing to do but laugh over the joke. Forney's Progress. Steam carpet-beaters are not failures, but every roan of any business tact knows that his wife can beat a carpet just as thoroughly as any ma-" chine, and that without cost Free Press.